Also called a network interface card (NIC), a network adapter is a plug-in card that enables a computer to transmit and receive data on a local network. Today, the term refers to an Ethernet adapter, although in the past, Token Ring, LocalTalk and FDDI networks were used.
Hypernyms (dependability is a kind of...): responsibility; responsibleness (a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of dependability): solidity; solidness (the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally) infallibility (the quality of never making an error) duplicability; reproducibility (the quality of being reproducible)
Repeatability or testâretest reliability is the variation in measurements taken by a single person or instrument on the same item, under the same conditions, and in a short period of time.